Tom Porteous
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Tom Porteous

Freelance photographerLondon, United Kingdom
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Tom Porteous
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Tom Porteous

Freelance photographerLondon, United Kingdom
About me
Creative media professional, capable of creating innovative high quality work in a range of mediums including photography, video and graphic design, with excellent communication, research and creative skills.
Projects
  • Events Photography
    Events Photography
Projects credited in
  • Channel 4 - Shades
    Channel 4 - Shades"Powerful and haunting" - Afua Hirsch, award winning journalist and broadcaster. Shades explores how institutional and structural racism can lead to internalised prejudice. The film premiered on Channel 4 and was officially selected by two BAFTA-Qualifying film festivals – Aesthetica Film Festival and the British Urban Film Festival. To commemorate the 30 year anniversary of Spike Lee’s critically acclaimed film - Jungle Fever - Shades featured as the official trailer and was screened across 60
Work history
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    Freelance PhotographerTom Porteous Photography
    Freelance
    - Working freelance for 3 years with commissions including weddings, fashion, portraiture and events. - Managing a wide range of clients, as well as using my time effectively and producing high quality work quickly. - Commissioned as the portrait photographer for The Cambridge Union Society; photographing the speakers invited to the Union, and for freelance portrait shoots. - Head of Photography at three student newspapers (The Tab Cambridge, Varsity, The Cambridge Student) and three of the largest student-run events organisations in Cambridge, requiring significant communication to set up and organise shoots.
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    Development ResearcherSTV Productions
     - Full Time
    - Devising and researching new science and history formats, blue chip science ideas; including writing treatments, research (including archive sources), and heading the department’s graphic design (InDesign) and taster tapes production (Final Cut Pro). - Researcher and Camera Assistant on a BBC4 History and Science commission. - Photographed the publicity stills for a BBC4 feature length doc for use in print and online.
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Skills
  • Fashion
  • Events
  • Film
  • Print Design
  • Art Photography
  • Commercial Photography
  • Picture Editing
  • Design
  • Digital Video
  • Final Cut Pro
  • Indesign
  • Office
  • Photoshop
  • Lightroom
  • Adobe Creative Suite
  • Photography
  • Video
  • Fashion Photography
  • Wedding Photography
  • Event Photography
Education
    University of Cambridge logo
    University of Cambridge logo
    Biological Natural SciencesUniversity of Cambridge
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    Zoology